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what's your message to john mccain? >> guest: well, i don't think that we would have the diversity of channels, i don't think there would be a c-span if people would literally just buy one channel at a time. i don't think most americans -- and yet how many americans are aware of c-span and have come upon it? and so, you know, if you buy a newspaper, you can't say i don't want the business section. buy a magazine, you may not read every article. you know, there's many businesses that give you a lot of choices. should we have more packaging flexibility and options for consumers? that's something we are hopeful and have worked on. we've got more packages than ever before. and finally, is this the government's role, or is it a negotiation between content companies and distributers? but, and my view is that this is best served in the business relationships, not in government laws and mandates. but, you know, we're very respectful. it's an important subject and one that we want to, again, be part of that dialogue. >> host: an
what's your message to john mccain? >> guest: well, i don't think that we would have the diversity of channels, i don't think there would be a c-span if people would literally just buy one channel at a time. i don't think most americans -- and yet how many americans are aware of c-span and have come upon it? and so, you know, if you buy a newspaper, you can't say i don't want the business section. buy a magazine, you may not read every article. you know, there's many businesses that give...
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he endorsed john mccain as president. he went tohe republican convention we are criticized, the democrat eck nominee barack obama and endorsed mccain and sarah palin. and when joe campaigned in 20080 with mccain, comes back to the senate and senate democrats make him the chairman of standing committee, contrast that with chuck hagel. 84% of americans for conservative action, voting record in his canner radio, voting for the bush tax cuts, voted for the war in iraq, oted against no child left behind but was a small government conservative, and republicans right now, particularly tea party, are not looking for converts like the democrats were with joe leiberman. they're looking for heretics. and they see in chuck hagel who never endorsed barack obama, was friendly with him, traveled with him, but didn't endorse him. they see this terrible heretic. and it's really, that is where the republicans are right now. they are looking for heretics instead of converts. and i think it's apparent in the tea party. but i think it's appar
he endorsed john mccain as president. he went tohe republican convention we are criticized, the democrat eck nominee barack obama and endorsed mccain and sarah palin. and when joe campaigned in 20080 with mccain, comes back to the senate and senate democrats make him the chairman of standing committee, contrast that with chuck hagel. 84% of americans for conservative action, voting record in his canner radio, voting for the bush tax cuts, voted for the war in iraq, oted against no child left...
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senator john mccain of arizona said that's the key reason his party must now get on board. >> elections. elections. the republican party is losing the support of our hispanic citizens. and we realize that there are many issues in which we think we are in agreement with our hispanic citizens, but this is a preeminent issue with those citizens. >> ifill: mccain also said the country cannot continue to deny citizenship to children brought to the u.s. illegally. president obama has said immigration reform is at the top of his second term agenda. today his spokesman jay carney welcomed the senate agreement. >> this is a big deal. this is an important development. this is in keeping with the principles the president has been espousing for a long time, in keeping with bipartisan efforts in the past, and with the effort this president believes has to end in a law that he can sign. >> ifill: mr. obama is scheduled to unveil his own ideas on immigration reform tomorrow in las vegas. >> woodruff: so how will the politics of this new effort shake out on capitol hill? we asked two senators from the
senator john mccain of arizona said that's the key reason his party must now get on board. >> elections. elections. the republican party is losing the support of our hispanic citizens. and we realize that there are many issues in which we think we are in agreement with our hispanic citizens, but this is a preeminent issue with those citizens. >> ifill: mccain also said the country cannot continue to deny citizenship to children brought to the u.s. illegally. president obama has said...
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senator john mccain of arizona said that's the key reason his party must now get on board. >> elections. elections. the republican party is losing the support of our hispanic citizens. and we realize that there are many issues in which we think we are in agreement with our hispanic citizens, but this is a preeminent issue with those citizens. >> ifill: mccain also said the country cannot continue to deny citizenship to children brought to the u.s. illegally. president obama has said immigration reform is at the top of his second term agenda. today his spokesman jay carney welcomed the senate agreement. >> this is a big deal. this is an important development. this is in keeping with the principles the president has been espousing for a long time in keeping with bipartisan efforts in the past, and with the effort this president believes has to end in a law that he can sign. >> ifill: mr. obama is scheduled to unveil his own ideas on immigration reform tomorrow in las vegas. >> woodruff: so how will the politics of this new effort shake out on capitol hill? we asked two senators from the g
senator john mccain of arizona said that's the key reason his party must now get on board. >> elections. elections. the republican party is losing the support of our hispanic citizens. and we realize that there are many issues in which we think we are in agreement with our hispanic citizens, but this is a preeminent issue with those citizens. >> ifill: mccain also said the country cannot continue to deny citizenship to children brought to the u.s. illegally. president obama has said...
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partner than his predecessor, and i think that it has helped with some u.s.s >> in other news, senators john mccain and lindsey graham have called for the and it wasprisoners, said that there could not be negotiations with members of the muslim brotherhood while they are in jail. beguntrial officially has about the man who is accused of killing 13 people at fort hood, leaving more than 30 wounded back in 2009. he is defending himself in court , and he will be questioning those he allegedly shot. from texas, we have this report. >> such is the security that theng the case courthouse has been turned into a bunker, with things most commonly seen in baghdad. at fort hoodility itself became a combat set, and there is this review flee unseen footage, showing soldiers fatally wounded before being shipped back to afghanistan. armywere shot by an psychiatrist who was then taken down by police. the self-confessed killer was motivated by what prosecutors called a jihad duty, set out to kill as many soldiers as he killing keep them from the taliban and, and he said he was on the wrong side and therefore
partner than his predecessor, and i think that it has helped with some u.s.s >> in other news, senators john mccain and lindsey graham have called for the and it wasprisoners, said that there could not be negotiations with members of the muslim brotherhood while they are in jail. beguntrial officially has about the man who is accused of killing 13 people at fort hood, leaving more than 30 wounded back in 2009. he is defending himself in court , and he will be questioning those he...
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and -- >> are you saying that is an incentive. >> john mccain has been candid about it. he said my own state the demographics of my own state are changing. it will be-- arizona will be a democratic state. general bush has predicted that by 2030 texas will be a blue state unless the republicans act on this. he's one of the few people who has sounded this alarm in his party. >> the republicans are actually pretty smart about this. they say immigration is a threshold issue. it is not enough to get the latino vote but you have to get over thatness. >> it's not the silver bullet. if mitt romney got the percentage ronald reagan did of hispanics we have depeted barack obama. >> speaking of thresholds the super bowl sunday night i'm going to put you both on the spot. call the score who is going to win. >> the score will be-- 2-0, that is baseball john harbaugh the baltimore ravens coach, the kid who wasn't the starting quarterback, wasn't the golden boy baltimore san francisco is beautiful a wonderful city, tony bennett sings a great song. herb canee called it baghdad on the bay
and -- >> are you saying that is an incentive. >> john mccain has been candid about it. he said my own state the demographics of my own state are changing. it will be-- arizona will be a democratic state. general bush has predicted that by 2030 texas will be a blue state unless the republicans act on this. he's one of the few people who has sounded this alarm in his party. >> the republicans are actually pretty smart about this. they say immigration is a threshold issue. it is...
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and -- >> are you saying that is an incentive. >> john mccain has been candid about it. he said my own state, the demogphics of my own state are changin it will be-- arizona will be a democratic state. general bush has predicted that by 2030 texas will be a blue state unless the republicans act on this. he's one of the few people who has sounded this alarm in his party. >> the republicans are actually pretty smart about this. they say immigration is a threshold issue. it is not enough to get the latino vote but you have to get over thatness. >> it's not the silver bullet. if mitt romney got the percentage ronald reagan did of hispanics we have depeted barack obama. >> speaking of thresholds, the super bowlunday nigh i'm going to put you both on the spot. call the score who is going to win. >> the score will be-- 2-0, that is baseball, john harbaugh, the baltimore ravens coach, the kid who wasn't the starting quarterback, wasn't the golden boy, baltimore, san francisco is beautiful, a wonderful city, tony bennett sings a great song. herb canee called it baghdad on the bay
and -- >> are you saying that is an incentive. >> john mccain has been candid about it. he said my own state, the demogphics of my own state are changin it will be-- arizona will be a democratic state. general bush has predicted that by 2030 texas will be a blue state unless the republicans act on this. he's one of the few people who has sounded this alarm in his party. >> the republicans are actually pretty smart about this. they say immigration is a threshold issue. it is...
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what is your message to john mccain? >> guest: well i don't think that we would have the diversity of channels. i don't think there would be a c-span and people would literally justify one channel and i don't think yet how many americans are aware of c-span and have come upon it? and so if you buy a newspaper you can't say i want the business section and i don't want the sports section. if you go to the supermarket, there are many businesses that do. should we have more packaging flexibility and options for consumers? that something that i think we are hopeful and we have worked on. we have got more more packages than we have ever have before them, the question is, is this the governments role or a negotiation between high-tech companies and distributors, but my view is this is best served in the business relationships by the government laws and mandates. but you know we are very respectful. it's an important subject and one that we want to again be part of the dialogue. >> host: finally mr. roberts, comcast is an operat
what is your message to john mccain? >> guest: well i don't think that we would have the diversity of channels. i don't think there would be a c-span and people would literally justify one channel and i don't think yet how many americans are aware of c-span and have come upon it? and so if you buy a newspaper you can't say i want the business section and i don't want the sports section. if you go to the supermarket, there are many businesses that do. should we have more packaging...
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bush and as adviser to john mccain's presidential campaign. he's now president of the american action forum, a policy think tank. and robert reich served as bill clinton's secretary of labor. he's now professor of public policy at the university of california, berkeley. maya, i saw that the fix the debt web site blog today said "the good the bad and the ugly" of the deal. explain what you saw. >> well the good news is that we didn't go over the fiscal cliff. i truly believe that would have been so damaging for the country and the economy and likely put us back in recession. what we also didn't do is fix the problem of the deficits and debt in this country. >> brown: the problem. >> that we're borrowing much too much and our debt is growing faster than our economy. we didn't take this opportunity to replace the cliff with a big comprehensive plan that would deal with all the broken parts of the budget and gradually not abruptly, but graduately put the debt on a downward path. and in this deal that we had the revenues probably not enough to fix
bush and as adviser to john mccain's presidential campaign. he's now president of the american action forum, a policy think tank. and robert reich served as bill clinton's secretary of labor. he's now professor of public policy at the university of california, berkeley. maya, i saw that the fix the debt web site blog today said "the good the bad and the ugly" of the deal. explain what you saw. >> well the good news is that we didn't go over the fiscal cliff. i truly believe that...
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john mccain has been very open about this and he said if the republicans want to be competitive with hispanic voters in america we've got to step forward and find a solution to our immigration challenge. >> now have the eight of you discussed not only the substance of the bill but how each team of you is going to deal with challenges from your own caucus? >> we haven't gotten into particulars. we could is certainly to this and my work as senate whip, i do it everyday where we break out members of each caucus and each approach to make sure they understand the bill but in tirness they took this to own caucus, we took ito ours and we opened it to question. on the democratic side, as you might expect, there was a more positive rnse but i still feel very hopeful we'll have a substantial number of republican senators. >> several of you at today's press conference talk about how you would welcome amendments but not amendments you felt were designed to kill the bill. how is that actually going to work? in other words, are you committed to working together as a group to actually meeting and s
john mccain has been very open about this and he said if the republicans want to be competitive with hispanic voters in america we've got to step forward and find a solution to our immigration challenge. >> now have the eight of you discussed not only the substance of the bill but how each team of you is going to deal with challenges from your own caucus? >> we haven't gotten into particulars. we could is certainly to this and my work as senate whip, i do it everyday where we break...
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it is chuck schumer, patting john mccain on the back, maverick john mccain, good to see you. they reached the decision on the nominations, again, mccain got that done, too. he was so integral for getting it done, that harry reid got emotional regarding it. >> john mccain and i have worked together for a long time. i have worked with him for 31 years. and we have had some pretty difficult times together. but in the 31 years we've worked together, there is no one i have ever worked with that is more a man of his word or person of his word than john mccain. >> in that case, john mccain had helped to cut a deal to allow a whole bunch of president obama's cabinet level nominees to get a vote. following the george zimmerman verdict this month, he praised the situation regarding race, the maverick seems to be making a comeback. my colleague reported earlier that democrats are crossing their fingers hoping that john mccain will break from his party hoping to avoid the potential shutdown, threatened as of late. when asked about it, he just might. when asked about it and the threats, j
it is chuck schumer, patting john mccain on the back, maverick john mccain, good to see you. they reached the decision on the nominations, again, mccain got that done, too. he was so integral for getting it done, that harry reid got emotional regarding it. >> john mccain and i have worked together for a long time. i have worked with him for 31 years. and we have had some pretty difficult times together. but in the 31 years we've worked together, there is no one i have ever worked with...
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bush and as adviser to john mccain's presidential campaign. he's now president of the american action forum, a policy think tank. and robert reich served as bill clinton's secretary of labor. he's now professor of public policy at the university of california, berkeley. maya, i saw that the fix the debt web site blog today said "the good, the bad and the ugly" of the deal. explain what you saw. >> well, the good news is that we didn't go over the fiscal cliff. i truly believe that would have been so damaging for the country and the economy and likely put us back in recession. what we also didn't do is fix the problem of the deficits and debt in this country. >> brown: the problem. >> that we're borrowing much too much and our debt is growing faster than our economy. we didn't take this opportunity to replace the cliff with a big comprehensive plan that would deal with all the broken parts of the budget and gradually, not abruptly, but graduately put the debt on a downward path. and in this deal that we had, the revenues probably not enough to
bush and as adviser to john mccain's presidential campaign. he's now president of the american action forum, a policy think tank. and robert reich served as bill clinton's secretary of labor. he's now professor of public policy at the university of california, berkeley. maya, i saw that the fix the debt web site blog today said "the good, the bad and the ugly" of the deal. explain what you saw. >> well, the good news is that we didn't go over the fiscal cliff. i truly believe...
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john mccain and others-- i called john and i said, "john, we need to try to work something out on this," and he stepped forward with others and did that. when it came time to go to floor, i talked about john mccain more than i talk about democrats. >> woodruff: so that did happen just last week, but today there is talk about potentially another filibuster on funding the presidents health care reform, on obamacare. could the fix that happened last week turn out to be just temporary? >> judy, if you look at what mike lee, the young man from utah, is talking about, read what he says. what he wants to do is shut down the government to get rid of obamacare, but in the process, he wants to keep all the good things we have in obamacare: no pre-existing disability problems, no limits on how much insurance companies have to pay. they want to make sure that all the wellness for millions of seniors still exists. you can stay on your parents insurance policy until you're age 26. he's living in a dream land. so republicans-- even republicans won't agree with what he's trying to do. and he is repres
john mccain and others-- i called john and i said, "john, we need to try to work something out on this," and he stepped forward with others and did that. when it came time to go to floor, i talked about john mccain more than i talk about democrats. >> woodruff: so that did happen just last week, but today there is talk about potentially another filibuster on funding the presidents health care reform, on obamacare. could the fix that happened last week turn out to be just...
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republicans john mccain and lindsey graham visited cairo in a bid to help resolve the stand- off between the military-backed government and supporters of ousted president mohammed morsi. >> we believe they should treat each other with respect. we also urge the release of political prisoners. we also urge strongly a national dialogue, a national dialogue that is inclusive for parties including the muslim brotherhood. >> reporter: senator graham said the interim government risks jeopardizing relations with the u.s. if it excludes brotherhood members from political negotiations. a spate of car bombings around baghdad killed more than 50 iraqis today as the recent surge of violence showed no signs of easing. the attacks began just before sunset and continued into the night. more than 650 people have been killed in iraq during the muslim holy month of ramadan. in syria, rebels claimed they've captured a key air base in the northern part of the country. the base is in the northern aleppo province and has been under siege since last year. video from the site showed rebels apparently inspecting
republicans john mccain and lindsey graham visited cairo in a bid to help resolve the stand- off between the military-backed government and supporters of ousted president mohammed morsi. >> we believe they should treat each other with respect. we also urge the release of political prisoners. we also urge strongly a national dialogue, a national dialogue that is inclusive for parties including the muslim brotherhood. >> reporter: senator graham said the interim government risks...
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one of those is republican senator john mccain of arizona. senator mccain, thank you for joining us. so assuming that the president last night tried to do two things-- sell diplomacy, and sell military action-- did he accomplish either? >> i think he was able to appeal to the emotions of the american people, and i think he was very eloquent in talking about the tragedies that have been caused by this war and by bashar al-assad. i don't think he made a strong case because i think he was trying to sell the idea of attacks but at the same time saying that we have to pause. i think that perhaps it might have been more effective if he had waited a couple of days to see how this whole russia option plays out. finally, i was saddened that he didn't mention of our need to support the free syrian army because he himself two years ago said that bashar al-assad had to leave office, and we know the only way he's going to leave is if he believes that he's not going to win in the battlefield. >> ifill: i want to get back to you on the free syrian army ques
one of those is republican senator john mccain of arizona. senator mccain, thank you for joining us. so assuming that the president last night tried to do two things-- sell diplomacy, and sell military action-- did he accomplish either? >> i think he was able to appeal to the emotions of the american people, and i think he was very eloquent in talking about the tragedies that have been caused by this war and by bashar al-assad. i don't think he made a strong case because i think he was...
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graham-- were coming out of a meeting with republicans saying "we're satisfied in the case of john mccain and graham, request the answers we got about benghazi from the white house. we're satisfied now. but we don't think other senators have had enough time. they're not on the arms services commit tee so we'll vote to hold this up now, when we come back in ten days we'll vote yes. it's not blocking, we just want to slow down." >> warner: what were the motivations? you had reid taking it to a vote where it was predicted he would lose and republicans said yeah we'll vote for it in another ten days but not now. what are the politics here? >> on the republican side, the politics have shifted from the center of the three amigos on national security, jindsy graham john mccain and senator kelly ayotte from new hampshire. it's shifted away from them. they had questions about benghazi which had been a major political issue since before the election. those seem to be moving off the table now. there are senators on the right who are asking questions about chuck hagel's speeches over the years. what
graham-- were coming out of a meeting with republicans saying "we're satisfied in the case of john mccain and graham, request the answers we got about benghazi from the white house. we're satisfied now. but we don't think other senators have had enough time. they're not on the arms services commit tee so we'll vote to hold this up now, when we come back in ten days we'll vote yes. it's not blocking, we just want to slow down." >> warner: what were the motivations? you had reid...
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people like john mccain, marco rubio who are seriously invested in the process of putting together a comprehensive bill. they see the politics have changed on this issue. they're trying to convince their party that now is the time to get hind a comprensi bill that includ boer security measures, that includes enforcement mechanisms and includes a pathway to citizenship for the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants that democrats are pushing. there is a chance to get it done but it's not going to be easy. the senate will be tough and the house is going to be even harder. >> warner: norm, do you see it this way, that there is a prospect here and that you've got a change of mind at least among some republicans? >> yes, there's no doubt. six months ago we would have said no way will we do anything on this isue, seriously t eleion chang all of that and it's changed the dynamics. but manu is right that we have a couple of big obstacles here. the first is one that janet napolitano basically highlighted: the devil is in the details. a framework is easy in the senate. when you get down to how
people like john mccain, marco rubio who are seriously invested in the process of putting together a comprehensive bill. they see the politics have changed on this issue. they're trying to convince their party that now is the time to get hind a comprensi bill that includ boer security measures, that includes enforcement mechanisms and includes a pathway to citizenship for the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants that democrats are pushing. there is a chance to get it done but it's not going...
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. >> reporter: that drew a forceful rebuke today from arizona's john mccain. >> i resoundingly reject that allegation. that allegation in my view does a great disservice, a great disservice for those brave americans who stood up and said what's happening in europe cannot stand. >> reporter: on the democratic side, majority leader harry reid minced no words in dismissing cruz's effort. >> it has been a big waste of time. the government is set to shut down in a matter of hours, just a few days, government will close. and it's a shame we're standing here having wasted perhaps two days-- most of yesterday and a good part of today-- when we could pass what we need to pass very quickly and send it back to the house of representatives. they're waiting for us to act. >> reporter: in the end, after the marathon floor speeches, even cruz voted in favor of taking up the government funding bill. he said the real test will be another procedural vote, expected tomorrow. majority democrats say if they get over that hurdle, they have the votes to strip the anti- obamacare language from the bill, and
. >> reporter: that drew a forceful rebuke today from arizona's john mccain. >> i resoundingly reject that allegation. that allegation in my view does a great disservice, a great disservice for those brave americans who stood up and said what's happening in europe cannot stand. >> reporter: on the democratic side, majority leader harry reid minced no words in dismissing cruz's effort. >> it has been a big waste of time. the government is set to shut down in a matter of...
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arizona senator john mccain said today the obama administration is to blame, saying n a statement: the latest developments come just one month before a syria peace conference is scheduled to begin in switzerland. so, might evidence of a weakened opposition derail those geneva peace talks? for that, i'm joined by: murhaf jouejati, an opposition activist and professor of middle east studies at the national defense university in washington-- he was born in syria; and joshua landis, director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma and editor of the web site "syria comment." mr. jouejati, was the administration, was the obama administration wise to pull back? >> it was not wise to pullback. it should reverse the trend that has been taking place for some weeks now which is the weakening of the moderate rebel forces and the rise of the extremist forces. and the way to reverse this is to support the moderate forces. these are the allies of the yoonteded states. these are the democratic forces calling for democracy in syria. so again, it is an unfortunate decision th
arizona senator john mccain said today the obama administration is to blame, saying n a statement: the latest developments come just one month before a syria peace conference is scheduled to begin in switzerland. so, might evidence of a weakened opposition derail those geneva peace talks? for that, i'm joined by: murhaf jouejati, an opposition activist and professor of middle east studies at the national defense university in washington-- he was born in syria; and joshua landis, director of the...
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[laughter] >> is john mccain a new close ally of the senate? >> john mccain is john mccain. i have known him. we will sometimes be shouting at each other. five minutes later we're walking arm in arm down the halls. i'll tell you one thing about if he disagrees with you, he has no hesitation to tell you. sometimes very emphatically. president and for reaching out. i give john credit. they have areas they disagree with. they say, let's work on the things we agree on. i've been here with democratic and republican presidents. i try to work with each one of them on things. label?es about the party do what is best. , thank you fory being with us. we continue the conversation with phil mattingly, who covers bloomberg news. what news did he make today? >> i was interested to hear him talk about the gun legislation that failed on the floor in april. obama and other leading democrats believed it is round one. it's sort of dropped from the radar as immigration came back up.today we heard from the chairman of the judiciary committee,he does not think it is going to come back. that has n
[laughter] >> is john mccain a new close ally of the senate? >> john mccain is john mccain. i have known him. we will sometimes be shouting at each other. five minutes later we're walking arm in arm down the halls. i'll tell you one thing about if he disagrees with you, he has no hesitation to tell you. sometimes very emphatically. president and for reaching out. i give john credit. they have areas they disagree with. they say, let's work on the things we agree on. i've been here...